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● 耶穌升天節 THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD // 2018 //
Ἡ Ἀνάληψις τοῦ Κυρίου
耶穌升天節是紀念基督耶稣在復活四十日後升天一事。這在《使徒信經》和《尼西亞信經》都得以確認。由於復活節在星期日，故本節在星期四慶祝。
The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, also known as Holy Thursday, Ascension Day, or Ascension Thursday, commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into heaven. Ascension Day is traditionally celebrated on a Thursday, the fortieth day of Easter (following the accounts given in Mark 16:19, Luke 24:51 and Acts 1:2), although some Christian denominations have moved the observance to the following Sunday. The festival of the Ascension is kept for nine days, ending on the Friday before Pentecost. The following day is kept as a Soul Saturday. This Memorial Day is appointed so that the faithful departed share in the blessings of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Let the Holy Spirit come into your life to bring you comfort and show you Truth.
• Icon of the Mother of God "STARO RUS" (Old Russian) (1570) 旧鲁萨圣母圣像纪念日
Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς «Παλαιᾶς» ἐν Ρωσίᾳ
The Starorusskaya Icon of the Mother of God was titled such because for a long time it was located Stara Russa, whither it had been brought by the Greeks from Olviopolis during the very first period of Christianity in Russia. The icon was situated in Stara Russa until the 17th century. In 1655 during the time of a plague it was revealed to a certain inhabitant of the city of Tikhvin that the pestilence would cease, if the wonderworking Starorusskaya Icon were transferred there, and the Tikhvin Icon sent to Stara Russa. After the transfer of the icons the plague ceased, but the Tikhvin people did not return the icon and only in the XVIII Century did they give permission to make a copy from the Starorusskaya Icon, which on 4 May 1768 was sent to Stara Russa. A feast was established in honour of this event. On 17 September 1888 the original was also returned to Stara Russa and a second festal date established.
• Hieromartyr ERASMUS 埃拉斯默 Bishop of Formia in Campania, and 20 000 Martyrs with him (303)
• Martyrs FLORIAN and 40 Companions at Lorsch, Austria (304)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Φλωριανὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας
Florian a senior Roman officer in Noricum, now Upper Austria, he was drowned in the River Enns near Lorsch under Diocletian. He is the patron-saint of Upper Austria and Poland.
• Hieromartyr bishop SILVANUS 息庐安 of Gaza, and with him 40 Martyrs (311)
起初西拉在军队中服役，后来被基督大能所感动，由此开始在教会中服侍。因为他被指责皈依异教徒信奉基督教，由此，他遭受了残酷的折磨。后来同其他40名士兵一起于公元311年被斩首。这样，他们都成了天国的一员。
• Martyrs APHRODISIUS 阿弗若迪西, LEONTIUS 莱翁提, ANTHONY 安托尼, VALERIAN 瓦莱里安, MACROBIUS 玛克若维 and 60 others Monks at Scythopolis of Palestine (4th c.)
Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀντωνίνος, Ἀφροδίσιος, Βαλεριανός, Λεόντιος, Μακρόβιος καὶ Μίδας οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς μαρτυρήσαντες
• Translation (890) of the relics of the Righteous LAZARUS and Equal to the Apostles MARY Magdalene
Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ἁγίου καὶ Δικαίου Λαζάρου καὶ τῆς Μαρίας τῆς Μαγδαληνῆς τῆς Μυροφόρου
• The Alfanov brothers of Novgorod: Sts NICETAS 尼基塔, CYRIL 基里尔, NICEPHORUS 尼基佛尔, CLEMENT 克莱孟特 and ISAAC 伊撒克 of Novgorod (14-15th c.) founders of the Sokolnitzki Monastery in 1389
Οἱ Ὅσιοι Ἰσαάκ, Κλήμης, Κύριλλος, Νικήτας καὶ Νικηφόρος ἐκ Ρωσίας
• Holy Georgian Martyrs of Persia (1660) // DAY OF THE HOLY ASCENSION //
It would be too long to narrate all that has passed in this miserable migration, how many murders, how many deaths caused by privation, how many seductions, rapes, and acts of violence, how many children drowned by their own parents or cast into rivers through despair, some snatched by force from their mother’s breasts because they seemed too weak to live and thrown down by the wayside and abandoned there to be food for wild beasts or trampled underfoot by the horses and camels of the army, which marched for a whole day on top of dead bodies; how many sons separated from their fathers, wives from their husbands, sisters from their brothers, and carried off to distant countries without hope of ever meeting again. Throughout the camp, men and women were sold on this occasion much cheaper than beasts, because of the great number of them.
• New Hieromartyr DIMITRI Archbishop of Gdov (1938)
• New Hieromartyr JOHN 约翰 Vasil’jev, priest (1886-1942) day of death in prison KZ
• New Hieromartyr NICHOLAS 尼科拉 Tokhtujev, deacon (1903-1943) day of death in Pechorlag KZ, Koneva of poselok Kozhva, Vorkuta, Komi
• New Hieromartyr Archpriest VASILY Martysz (1945)
• ÆTHELRED (Ethelred, Ailred) 埃特尔瑞德 of Bardney (716) King of Mercia in England, he abdicated in order to become a monk at Bardney where he later became abbot
• VM ANTONIA of Constantinople (3rd c.) Christian maiden who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian and Galerius burned at the stake in Constantinople
• ANTHONY du Rocher (6th c.) disciple of St Benedict and companion of St Maurus in his mission to France, founder of the monastery of Saint Julian in Tours
By tradition a disciple of St Benedict and companion of St Maurus in his mission to France. He was the founder of the monastery of Saint Julian in Tours. He is called 'du Rocher' because he ended his days as a hermit at a place called le Rocher.
• Bishop ARBEO of Freising (726-783)
Student under Saint Corbinian. Benedictine monk. First abbot at the Scharnitz Monastery at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 763. Bishop of Freising, Germany in 765. He increased the reputation of the diocese for prosperity and religious devotion, founded several convents, and make the Freising cathedral school and library famous for its scholarship. Author of the first Latin-German dictionary. Wrote a biography of Saint Corbinian, and transferred his relics from Mais to Freising in 767.
• ATHANASIOS 阿塔纳西 of Corinth, bishop (10-11th c.)
Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀθανάσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Κορίνθου
• CONLETH a maker of sacred vessels, 1st Bishop of Kildare (519)
A hermit in Old Connell on the River Liffey in Ireland. St Brigid came to know him and he became the spiritual father of her nuns at Kildare, of which he became the first bishop. He was a metalworker and very skilled as a copyist and illuminator.
• CUNEGUND (1052) a nun at the convent of Niedermunster in Ratisbon in Germany
• CURCODOMUS a deacon in Rome (2nd c.) sent to help St Peregrinus, 1st Bishop of Auxerre in France
• Hieromartyr CYRIACUS (Quiriacus) Bishop of Ancona in Italy (133) who was martyred under Julian the Apostate in the Holy Land
Saint Cyriacus, patron of Ancona, Italy, is variously and unreliably conjectured to have been the legendary Jew named Judas Quiriacus, who revealed where the Cross was hidden to Empress Saint Helena. Later he was baptized, consecrated as bishop of Jerusalem, and martyred during the persecutions of Julian the Apostate. Otherwise, he is said to have been the bishop of Ancona who died or was killed during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, or he is styled as Bishop Judas of Jerusalem, who was killed during a riot there in 133. In other words, we don't really know who he was, but we have a 12th-century illumination of his martyrdom.
• Hermit ENÉOUR (Enegwor, Enemour, Ener, Enevor) (6th c.) brother of St Thumette, the two of them sailed on a stone from Wales to Bigouden in Brittany in northern France
• Tr.Rel. of St ETHELBURGA (Edelburge, Ethel, Aedilburh, Aethelburh) First Abbess of Monastery at Barking in Essex, England (675)
• Translation (1131) of Relics of Sainted GOTTHARD (Godard, Gothard) of Hildesheim, became Bishop of Hildesheim in 1022 and did much to spread the Faith (1038)
Born in Bavaria, he became a monk at Niederaltaich in Germany. Later he restored monastic life elsewhere. The monasteries of Tegernsee, Hersfeld and Kremsmünster all received abbots from Niederaltaich. In 1022 he became Bishop of Hildesheim and did much to spread the Faith.
• Venerable GUIDO (Wido) Abbot in Pomposa (970-1046)
• HELENA of Troyes in France
• HILARY 伊拉里显 the Wonderworker of the desert (385)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἱλάριος ὁ Θαυματουργός
• HILSINDIS (1028) Matr., W., Fndr. of convent of Thorn on the Marne in France
Hilsindis was born into the family of the dukes of Lorraine (France). In her widowhood she was the abbess-founder of the convent of Thorn on the Marne River in France.
• MELANGELL (Monacella) Reclusess of Pennant (Penant, Tanat) (present day Powys) near Llangynog, Montgomeryshire (6-7th c.)
• MOCHUA (Cronan) son of Cuimine, of Sliabh Eibhlinne, now Slieve Phelim Mountains, County of Limerick
• MONICA 莫尼卡 of Tagaste (387) the mother of St Augustine of Hippo; the patron saint of wives and mothers whose husbands or sons have gone astray
Ἡ Ἁγία Μόνικα μητέρα τοῦ Ἁγίου Αὐγουστίνου
It is a notorious mistake and misrepresentation, to call this fault the crime of drunkenness, though such a habit insensibly paves the way to the utmost excesses; and this danger of a saint ought to be a powerful warning to deter all persons, especially servants and young people, from a like custom of sipping, how insignificant and trifling soever the first steps towards it may appear. If Monica was awakened before she was brought to the brink of the precipice, this was the effect of a singular grace; and, where she repented, thousands perish, and regardless of every evil, present and future, become the murderers of their bodies, their reason, the fortunes of their family, and their immortal souls. This destroying evil arises from small beginnings neglected.
• NEPOTIANUS (395) nephew of St Heliodorus, Bishop of Altino near Venice in Italy, by whom he was ordained after leaving his high position as an officer in the imperial bodyguard
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νεποτιανὸς ὁ πρεσβύτερος
Saint Heliodorus, bishop of Altino, ordained his nephew Nepotian as priest after he abandoned his high position as an officer in the imperial bodyguard. Nepotian was much esteemed by Saint Jerome, who dedicated to him a treatise on the sacerdotal life.
• NICEPHORUS 尼基佛尔 of Medikion, abbot and founder of Medikion Monastery (813)
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικηφόρος ἡγούμενος τῆς μονῆς Μηδικίου
• NICEPHORUS 尼基佛尔 the Solitary (the Hesychast) of Mount Athos (1300) teacher of St Gregory Palamas
Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικηφόρος ὁ ἐν Ἄθῳ ἀσκήσας
起初尼基佛尔是天主教徒，后来皈依了东正教。他同明智的特奥里波托斯一起在圣山阿托斯过着修行生活。他是荣耀的格里哥利•帕拉马斯的导师，并书写了一本心祷著作。尼基佛尔于公元14世纪安息主怀。他这样教导：“集中精神，强制其进入心中，并留在那里。当你的思想集中在心中时，就不会空虚，并使其继续进行祷告：哦，主耶稣基督，上帝之子，怜悯我罪人！不要让心沉默。因为如此，一连串的美德将会进入你心中：爱、喜乐、平安以及其他，正因为这些，你向上帝的每一次请求都会如愿以偿。”
• PAULINUS of Sinigaglia (826) Bishop and now patron-saint of Sinigaglia in Italy
• Martyr PAULINUS whose relics are enshrined in Cologne in Germany
• Virgin Martyress PELAGIA 佩拉吉亚 of Tarsus in Asia Minor (287)
Ἡ Ἁγία Πελαγία ἡ Μάρτυς
佩拉吉亚出生于大数的一个异教徒家庭，父母显赫且富有。从基督徒那里听到有关基督和灵魂拯救之后，她对救世主充满了火一般的爱，而在她的心中完全是一名基督徒。当时正在对基督徒进行可怕的迫害。当时的皇帝戴克里先正在大数地区停留，期间皇太子与佩拉吉亚一见钟情，并预想娶她为妻。佩拉吉亚通过她那邪恶的母亲给予了回复说：她现在已经是基督的新娘。逃离了信仰不同的皇太子和邪恶的母亲之后，佩拉吉亚寻找到了德高望重的利努斯主教。利努斯主教引导她走入基督信仰，并为她施浸。之后，佩拉吉亚将她贵重的衣物、财富都放弃，返回家之后告诉她的母亲，她已经接受了浸礼。得知此事之后，皇太子知道他已经失去了佩拉吉亚，于是掏出宝剑自刎身亡。邪恶的母亲向皇帝揭露了佩拉吉亚的身份，并将她带到法庭。皇帝看着这位美貌的女人，忘记了他的儿子，对佩拉吉亚产生了非念。因为佩拉吉亚坚定不移的信仰，由此皇帝下令将她放在铁牛空腹中，在下面燃起火来将她活烧。刽子手们脱掉她的衣服，佩拉吉亚划了十字圣号，口中向上帝祷告感谢，走进了铁牛中。眨眼间佩拉吉亚就在被烧红的铁牛中熔化了。佩拉吉亚殉道的时间为公元287年，主教利努斯请求收回被燃烧后的佩拉吉亚的遗骨，并将其安葬在小山上。在君士坦丁•科普伦尼摩斯在位期间（公元741－775年），在安葬佩拉吉亚遗骨的原址上修建了一座壮观的教堂，以纪念圣佩拉吉亚，她为了基督牺牲了自己，换得的是同基督一起统治万邦。
• Hieromartyr PORPHYRIUS of Camerino (250) priest who preached in Umbria in Italy and was beheaded under Decius
Porphyrius is said to have preached in Umbria, Italy, chiefly at Camerino, and to have been beheaded under Decius. He belongs to the apocryphal legend of Saint Venantius. Porphyrius is depicted in art dressed in a doctor's cap and gown, holding a book, with Saint John the Baptist. He might also be portrayed as a priest with Saint Venantius.
• SACERDOS (Sardot, Sadroc, Sardou, Serdon, Serdot) of Limoges, Bishop of Limoges (670-720)
Born in the neighbourhood of Sarlat in Périgord in France, he became a monk and eventually founded Calabre (Calviat) Abbey. He was appointed bishop of Limoges and shepherded his flock until shortly before his death.
• Zealous missionary SCANNAL of Cell-Coleraine (563) in Ireland was a disciple of St Columba of Iona
• SIOLLAN the Deacon
• THEODOSIA (Fedosia) Princess of Vladimir (1244) wife of Jaroslav Vsevolodovich; mother of St Alexander Nevsky
Ἡ Ὁσία Θεοδοσία πριγκίπισσα τοῦ Βλαδιμίρ
• Martyress TRIFINA at Rome
• VENERIUS of Milan, 2nd bishop of Milan (409) a loyal supporter of St John Chrysostom
Venerius is one of the breed of fast-track bishops. He was ordained a deacon by Saint Ambrose. About 400 AD, Venerius was promoted to the see of Milan following the death of Saint Simplician. Venerius is best remembered as a loyal supporter of Saint John Chrysostom.
• Sainted WILLERICH Bishop of Bremen (838)
THE HOLY ASCENSION - 40 DAYS AFTER PASCHA Synaxarion
After his Resurrection Jesus remained on earth forty days, appearing at intervals to his Disciples in various places. He ate, drank, and conversed with them, thus verifying and assuring his Resurrection. On this day corresponding to the fortieth day from the Passover, falling then on the third of May, he appeared to them in Jerusalem. He first conversed with them on various topics; then he gave them his last commandment, to go forth and preach in his Name to all the nations, beginning with, Jerusalem. At the same time told them not to depart from Jerusalem, but remain there a while until they were clothed with power from on high by the descent of the Holy Spirit upon them.
Having said this, he led them to the Mount of Olives. Then he lifted up his hands and blessed them. And as he was speaking to them with words of fatherly blessing, he was parted from them and ascended into heaven, being received by a shining cloud, indicating his divine, majesty. He sat on it as on a royal chariot and began to ascend to heaven, gradually disappearing from the sight of the Disciples as they gazed at him. And as they stood thus two angels in brilliant white robes appeared to them in the form of men and said to them, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. In these words, therefore, is fulfilled and defined the doctrine concerning the Son of God and his Word, in the Confession of Faith. And thus after our Lord Jesus. Christ fulfilled all his great dispensation for us, He ascended in glory into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God the Father. As for his undefiled Disciples, they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, rejoicing in the promise of the coming of the Holy Spirit (Lk. 24:46-52 and Acts 1:1-12).
It may be explained that the Mount of Olives was at such a distance from Jerusalem as would permit the Jews to walk to it on the sabbath, hence, it is said that it was a sabbath day's journey. Incomanius (in his commentary on Acts) explained that the distance must have been one mile, or two thousand cubits, as Origen also says in the Fifth of his Stromata. They deduce this from the fact that the tents of the Israelites of old in the wilderness were about that distance from the cupola of the holy tabernacle of the covenant, to which they walked on the sabbath for the worship of God.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.
愿上帝怜恤我罪人
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
for the sake of the prayers
of Thy most pure Mother,
our holy and God-bearing fathers and all the saints, have mercy on us.
Amen.
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Blessed be God.
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